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One of the...

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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Source: 28 Apr 1778; in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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